1922 in film

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The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Events

• June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
• November 26 – The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Highest-grossing films of 1922

Rank	Title	Gross
1	Robin Hood	$2,500,000
2	Oliver Twist	$4,360,000
3	Blood and Sand	$1,250,000 (US/Canada)
4	Manslaughter	$1,200,000
5	Grandma's Boy	$1,100,000 (US/Canada)
6	When Knighthood Was in Flower	$1,000,000 (US/Canada)
7	Smilin' Through	$1,000,000 (US/Canada)

Notable films released in 1922

United States unless stated

• The Bachelor Daddy, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy
• Beauty's Worth, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
• Beyond the Rocks, directed by Sam Wood; starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
• A Bill of Divorcement, directed by Denison Clift, starring Constance Binney, Fay Compton – (Britain)
• The Blacksmith, a Buster Keaton short
• A Blind Bargain, directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney
• Blood and Sand, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, and Lila Lee
• The Bohemian Girl, Starring Gladys Cooper and Ivor Novello – (GB)
• The Bride's Play, directed by George Terwilliger, starring Marion Davies and Carl Miller
• The Burning Soil (Der brennende Acker) – (Germany)
• The Card, directed by A.V. Bramble – (Britain)
• Clarence, directed by William C. deMille, starring Wallace Reid
• Cocaine, directed by Graham Cutts – (GB)
• Cops, a Buster Keaton film
• Crainquebille (Coster Bill of Paris), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
• Daydreams, a Buster Keaton short
• A Debt of Honour, starring Isobel Elsom and Clive Brook (Britain)
• The Dictator, directed by Jim Cruze; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler), directed by Fritz Lang; starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge – (Germany)
• Dr. Jack, starring Harold Lloyd
• The Electric House, a Buster Keaton short
• Fair Lady, directed by Kenneth Webb
• La Femme de nulle part, directed by Louis Delluc – (France)
• Flames of Passion, starring Mae Marsh and C. Aubrey Smith – (GB)
• Flesh and Blood, starring Lon Chaney
• Foolish Wives, directed by & starring Erich von Stroheim
• The Frozen North, starring Buster Keaton
• The Ghost Breaker, directed by Alfred E. Green; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
• A Gipsy Cavalier, directed by J. Stuart Blackton ; starring Georges Carpentier and Flora le Breton – (GB)
• Grandma's Boy, starring Harold Lloyd
• The Grass Orphan, directed by Frank Hall Crane; starring Margaret Bannerman, Reginald Owen – (Britain)
• Häxan, directed by Benjamin Christensen – (Sweden/Denmark)
• The Headless Horseman, starring Will Rogers
• In the Name of the Law, directed by Emory Johnson, starring Ralph Lewis and Claire McDowell
• Laborer's Love (Laogong zhi aiqing) – (China)
• Lorna Doone, directed by Maurice Tourneur
• The Loves of Pharaoh (Das Weib des Pharao), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
• Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Richard Oswald, starring Conrad Veidt and Liane Haid (Germany)
• Manslaughter, starring Thomas Meighan
• Marizza (aka Marizza, called the Smuggler Madonna), directed by F.W. Murnau – (Germany)
• Moran of the Lady Letty, directed by George Melford, starring Dorothy Dalton & Rudolph Valentino
• More to Be Pitied Than Scorned, directed by Edward LeSaint
• Mud and Sand, a parody of Blood and Sand, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• My Boy, starring Jackie Coogan
• My Wife's Relations, starring Buster Keaton
• Nanook of the North, a documentary directed by Robert J. Flaherty
• Nathan the Wise, directed by Manfred Noa (Germany)
• Nice People, directed by William C. deMille; starring Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels
• Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror), directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Max Schreck – (Germany)
• Number 13, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; starring Ernest Thesiger – (GB)
• Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan
• One Exciting Night, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Carol Dempster and Henry Hull
• One Glorious Day, directed by James Cruze; starring Will Rogers and Lila Lee
• The Paleface, starring Buster Keaton
• Pay Day, a Charles Chaplin short
• Peg o' My Heart, directed by King Vidor
• Phantom, directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover and Lya De Putti – (Germany)
• Polikushka – (U.S.S.R.)
• The Primitive Lover, directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Constance Talmadge
• The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone
• Rent Free, directed by Howard Higgin; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
• Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan; starring Douglas Fairbanks
• Rob Roy, directed by W.P. Kellino (GB)
• Saturday Night, starring Leatrice Joy and Conrad Nagel
• The Scarlet Letter, starring Sybil Thorndike – (GB)
• Shadows, directed by Tom Forman; starring Lon Chaney and Marguerite De La Motte
• Sherlock Holmes, starring John Barrymore and Roland Young
• Smilin' Through, starring Norma Talmadge
• Sodom and Gomorrah, directed by Michael Curtiz – (Austria)
• La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet) – (France)
• Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep directed by George Pearson; starring Betty Balfour – (GB)
• The Suram Fortress (Suramis tsikhe) – (U.S.S.R.)
• Tess of the Storm Country, starring Mary Pickford
• The Three Must-Get-Theres directed by and starring Max Linder
• The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong
• Vaskresenja ne biva bez smrti, (There's no resurrection without death), the first Montenegrin movie
• What's Wrong with the Women?, directed by Roy William Neill; starring Constance Bennett & Hedda Hopper
• When Knighthood Was in Flower, starring Marion Davies
• Wildness of Youth, directed by Ivan Abramson
• The Young Diana, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
• The Young Rajah, starring Rudolph Valentino

Short film series

• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)

Animated short film series

Felix the Cat cartoon.

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)

Births

• January 10 – Hannelore Schroth, actress (died 1987)
• January 13 – Albert Lamorisse, director (died 1970)
• January 16 – Irene Vernon, actress (died 1998)
• January 17 – Betty White, actress
• January 19 – Guy Madison, actor (died 1996)
• January 21
  • Telly Savalas, actor (died 1994)
  • Paul Scofield, actor (died 2008)
• January 31 – Joanne Dru, actress (died 1996)
• February 6 – Patrick Macnee, actor (died 2015)
• February 7 – Hattie Jacques, actress (died 1980)
• February 9 – Kathryn Grayson, singer, actress (died 2010)
• February 26 – Margaret Leighton, actress (died 1976)
• March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director (died 1975)
• March 8 – Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer (died 2008)
• March 20 – Carl Reiner, comic actor, director and screenwriter (died 2020)
• March 21 – Russ Meyer, director, producer (died 2004)
• April 3 – Doris Day, actress, singer (died 2019)
• April 5 – Gale Storm, singer, actress (died 2009)
• April 15 – Michael Ansara, American stage, screen, and voice actor (died 2013)
• April 18 – Barbara Hale, American actress (died 2017)
• April 27 – Jack Klugman, American actor (died 2012)
• May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress (died 1992)
• May 27 – Christopher Lee, English actor (died 2015)
• May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English-born actor (died 1992)
• June 1 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (died 1991)
• June 9 – George Axelrod, American scriptwriter and director (died 2003)
• June 10 – Judy Garland, American singer, actress (died 1969)
• June 16 – Frances Rafferty, American actress (died 2004)
• June 26 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (died 2013)
• July 6 – William Schallert, American actor, (died 2016)
• July 26 – Blake Edwards, American director (died 2010)
• August 8 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (died 1999)
• September 1
  • Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director (died 2000)
  • Yvonne De Carlo, American actress (died 2007)
• September 8 – Sid Caesar, American comedian, actor (died 2014)
• September 14 – Michel Auclair, European actor (died 1988)
• September 15 – Jackie Cooper, American actor, director (died 2011)
• September 16
  • Guy Hamilton, English director (died 2016)
  • Janis Paige, American actress
• September 23 – Louise Latham, American actress (died 2018)
• September 29 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (died 2015)
• October 23 – Coleen Gray, American actress (died 2015)
• October 31 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (died 2005)
• November 9 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer (died 1965)
• November 12 – Kim Hunter, actress (died 2002)
• November 13
  • Madeleine Sherwood, actress (2016)
  • Oskar Werner, actor (died 1984)
• November 14 – Veronica Lake, American actress (died 1973)
• November 15 – Francesco Rosi, film director (died 2015)
• December 2
  • Don Fellows, American actor (died 2007)
  • Leo Gordon, actor and screenplay writer (died 2000)
• December 4 – Gérard Philipe, actor (died 1959)
• December 11 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
• December 22
  • Stan Lee, American comic-book writer, producer and actor (died 2018)
  • Ruth Roman, actress (died 1999)
• December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress (died 1990)

Deaths

• February 1 – William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal. (born 1872)
• February 4 – Florence Deshon, American actress (born 1893)
• March 4 – Bert Williams, American actor and singer (born 1874)
• May 21 – Sidney Ainsworth, actor (born 1872)
• May 26 – Walter Jones, American actor (b.1874)
• June 6 – Lillian Russell, stage and screen actress (born 1860/61)
• June 15 – Howard Crampton, actor (born 1865)
• July 5 – Bobby Connelly, child star (born 1909)
• September 23 – W. Chrystie Miller, veteran stage & screen actor (born 1843)
• November 30 – René Cresté, actor and director (born 1881)

Film debuts

• Clara Bow
• Walt Disney – director, producer
• Louise Dresser
• William Haines
• Will Hay
• Edward Everett Horton
• Gene Lockhart
• Anita Louise
• George O'Brien
• William Powell
• Anne Shirley
• Darryl F. Zanuck – director, producer
• Rin Tin Tin

External links

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